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The enforcement of comprehensive and clear legislation
with appropriate penalties and accompanied by public
awareness campaigns is a critical factor in reducing road
traffic injuries and deaths.
Enforcement of all road safety laws needs to be both
improved and sustained.
World Health Organization: Global Status Report on Road Safety (2009)
In any given hour on any moderately busy road anywhere in the world, most drivers will witness multiple traffic violations. Vehicles weave in and out of traffic, pass in dangerous places, ignore traffic signs and signals, tailgate, speed or otherwise fail to adhere to the rules of the road. Road traffic injuries are the ninth leading cause of death worldwide and are expected to be the fifth leading cause by 2030. An estimated 1.2 million people are killed each year on the world’s roads and over 20 million are injured. About half of these injuries are classified as “vulnerable road users” – pedestrians, bicyclists and motorbike riders.
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The ability of an Enforcement Deputy?equipped vehicle to catch ten times the number of violations caught by a traditional police patrol increases enforcement efficiency. Importantly, Enforcement Deputy catches serious violations that commonly cause accidents and fatalities, rather than speeding vehicles at speed traps. Drivers will quickly
learn that behavior that they could get away with in the past without great concern of getting caught, stands a much greater chance of being caught and fined once enforcement
programs are introduced based on Enforcement Deputy. This will lead to calmer, safer roads and fewer accidents and fatalities. |
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Enforcement Deputy will typically be installed in a police-managed fleet of unmarked, vehicles. These vehicles circulate in traffic as directed by police traffic enforcement officers and record traffic violations. The Enforcement Deputy system captures the same driving violations that the typical driver witnesses on the road: tailgating, weaving in traffic, dangerous passing, lane violations, failure to signal, ignoring traffic signals and signs, and not yielding right-of-way.
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Traditional traffic law enforcement involves a police traffic officer who must witness the violation, pursue and stop the offender, issue a citation, and then, if challenged, appear in court some months later. At that point, it is the police officer’s word against the suspected violator, and the police officer can hardly be expected to remember the event. Pursuing an offending vehicle such as a red light runner or a car weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds can be dangerous for the officer and to other vehicles in the area. Police find it easier to set speed traps and use radar devices to catch speeding vehicles at locations where the offender can be easily and safely stopped. Though in most cases, these speeding vehicles do not pose a serious hazard to anyone, they are easier to catch and convict using the radar evidence than those committing more serious traffic violations. Speed is often a factor in accidents, but rarely is speed alone the cause of an accident. In short, traditional police traffic enforcement tends to be time-consuming, often dangerous and not very effective
Automated enforcement systems, red light camera systems and fixed speed cameras, have been shown to reduce the frequency of red light running and speeding on the specific stretches where cameras are installed. Because these automated systems are fixed in specific intersections or along specific highway stretches, they have little general effect. New means of enforcing traffic laws are needed.
A new method of smart, effective enforcement that uses RoadMetric's line of products can increase enforcement effectiveness dramatically, resulting in noticeable improvment of road safety.
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